viduals
on the 15th of Nisan. It is called by the general name passover,
John xviii. 28. Want of acquaintance with this subject has led some
commentators to suppose that there is a discrepancy between the
account of the last passover of our Lord as related in the
Synoptical Gospels, and as recorded by St. John.

164 Jer. Tal. reads "sell."

165 Lev. xxiii. 11.

166 Lev. xxiii. 17.

167 Exod. xxv. 30.

168 Lev. xxiii. 19.

169 Num. xxviii. 15.

170 Exod. xxviii. 36-38.

171 1 Chron. xxix. 19.

172 It remained uneaten overnight, and therefore must be burned, in
accordance with Exod. xii. 10.

173 From the need of a boiler it appears that the wine used at the
passover was mixed with hot water. The wine itself was always red.

174 If one observed the issue three times on the same day, he could not
be considered clean before he brought a sacrifice.

175 In which there is a dead body.

176 The mourner might be too sorrowful to eat, the sick too ill to eat,
and the prisoner might be detained in prison, etc.

177 Numbers ix. 10.

178 About fifteen miles from Jerusalem. Modiim or Modin was the city of
the Maccabees.

179 Psalms cxiii.-cxviii.

180 Exod. xii. 3.

181 The substitute refers to one animal changed for another, which had
been intended for the passover-offering.

182 The following rules are founded on two principles; firstly, that
every lamb must have its own numbered company of eaters; and
secondly, that no person could be numbered with two companies.

183 It was after the first cup of wine was drunk that our Lord washed
the disciples' feet (John xiii. 5; Luke xxii. 17).

184 Deut. xxvi. 5-11.

185 Exod. xiii. 8.

186 Psalm cxiii. 9.

187 Psalm cxiv. 8.

188 The third cup was called the "cup of blessing" (1 Cor. x. 16). It
was the one used by our Lord for the institution of the holy
sacrament.

189 Psalm cxxxvi.

190 They may have been overcome with wine (1 Cor. xi. 21).

191 This is explained in the treatise "Hands."

192 Where the counsellors sat.

193 Called Sagan (suffragan) (2 Kings xxv. 18; Jer. lii. 24).

194 Lev. xvi. 6.

195 As might occur from the frequent changes during the second Temple.

196 That he would incense "within" the vail (Lev. xvi. 12, 13), in
opposition to the Sadducees, who maintaine